Demetrios

Demetrios descends directly from Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and the turning seasons, so the name reads as something like devotee of the harvest. Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki, a fourth-century martyr and patron of that city, carried it into the Christian calendar, and it has remained a pillar of Greek naming ever since — usually pared to Dimitri or Jimmy abroad. Four syllables in its classical form, deh-MEE-tree-os, with the sturdy architecture of a name meant to last. It smells of threshing floors and olive wood, a boy's name rooted in the oldest religion of the Mediterranean, the one about bread.